Getting out of the flow of traffic comes first, and it is the only bit of driving you should do. If the tyre has gone on the A41 or on one of the M40 slip roads at Junction 9 or 10, keep going only until the car is properly clear of the running lanes, then stop, whatever the surface underneath it is like. If it has gone in the queue for the Bicester Village car parks on a busy Saturday, work out to the side rather than sitting in the line with everyone behind you, because a stationary car in that traffic causes a real problem for a lot of people. Once you are out of the way, that is the end of the driving.
Everything after that is a waiting job, and a short one. You do not need recovery, the car does not need a garage, and on the newer developments at Graven Hill, Kingsmere or Langford Village there frequently is not a fitting bay within any sensible distance anyway. That is precisely why the van comes out instead. Ring us with the road and which junction you last passed, stay out of the car if you are anywhere near fast traffic, and wait. When we get there the wheel comes off, the tyre comes off the rim so the damage can be seen, and you leave on something sound rather than something borrowed.
Somebody else driving your car and ringing you about a flat is a normal Tuesday. It does not complicate anything. Whether it has stopped in Southwold or over in Langford Village, it is one call. A Kingsmere cul-de-sac or a Bure Park main road, tell us which. A tight terrace in Langford Village or a narrow bay on the B4030 is usually workable.
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Bicester has grown faster than its garages have, and that shows the moment a tyre lets go. From Bure Park, Kingsmere or Graven Hill the nearest fitting bay can be a proper drive, and the roads in between are the A41 and the M40 approaches, which are not roads to attempt on damaged rubber. Add the shopping traffic that builds around the outlet on a peak day and a stricken car quickly becomes everybody's problem. Get clear of the flow, stop, and let a stocked van come to the exact spot. It is the only route through this that does not cost you a tyre.
A driver kept the car moving until it was properly off the slip road and onto the verge beyond it, then stopped dead. That was the right amount of driving. Anything more would have cost the tyre, anything less would have cost far more than that.
A flat in the shopping traffic with a long line building behind. Once the car was worked out of the flow and parked, the pressure lifted entirely. The wheel change itself was the calmest part of the afternoon.
Building work leaves screws where cars drive, and the estate roads here produce more of these than anywhere else in town. Found on the drive rather than at speed, and still a straightforward job when the tyre came off.
Only until you are genuinely out of the traffic, and no further. On a slip road that might mean carrying on to the verge past the junction. In a car park queue it means working out to one side. Then stop and leave it.
It makes a mobile fitter more useful, not less. Most of the newer developments here are a real drive from a fitting bay, which is exactly the journey a damaged tyre cannot make. We come to the estate instead.
No. Get clear of the carriageway, stand well back from the car, and call. A tyre is dealt with at the vehicle, so recovery would just be an expensive way of moving a car that is about to be driveable.
Yes. Tell us the car park and roughly where in it you are and we will come to the bay. The car stays parked and your day carries on around it.
Typically 30 to 60 minutes across Bicester and its outlying developments. A driver stopped on the M40 approaches or the A41 is treated ahead of a car sitting safely on a drive.
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